Publications

Recent Publications

Erasing the Mark of a Criminal Past: Ex Offenders' Expectations and Experiences with Record Clearance

By Ericka B. Adams and Elsa Chen

You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Struggle to Understand Black Baltimore

By Randol Contreras

Empowerment or Dispowerment? The Portrayal of Black Women in Tyler Perry's Films

By Helyne Frederick, Kishonna Gray, Amber Gadsden, and Myesha Mickens 

Gender-Specific Conflicts Among Urban African American Youth: The Roles of Situational Context and Issues of Contention

By Jennifer Cobbina, Toya Z. Like, and Jody Miller

“I Would Be a Bulldog”: Tracing the Spillover of Carceral Identity

By Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Clothing Makes the Man: Impression Management and Prisoner Reentry

By Calvin John Smiley and Keesha Middlemass

Boko Haram in Nigeria: Statistical Trends, Patterns and Social Implications

By Temitope Oriola and Marcella Cassiano

Code of the Classroom? Social Disadvantage and Bullying Among American Adolescents, U.S. 2011-2012

By B​ryan L. Sykes, Alex R. Piquero, and Jason P. Gioviano 

Bienestar Emocional de Jovenes en Programas de Acogimiento Familiar: Un Estudio Exploratorio
Emotional Well-Being of Youth in Foster Care: An Exploratory Study

By Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Sherley Bedore, Gayle Davis, and Terri Hipps

Culture and Formal Social Control: The Effect of the Code of the Street on Police and Court Decision-making

By Daniel Mears, Eric A. Stewart, Patricia Y. Warren, Ronald L. Simons

BOOKS

2017

• Big House on the Prarie:  Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
  By John M. Eason
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• Convicted and Condemned:  The Politics of Prisoner Reentry
  By Keesha M. Middlemass
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• Roots of African American Violence: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity, and Racism
  By Darnell F. Hawkins, Jerome B. McKean, Norman A. White, and Christine Martin

2016

• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
  By Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
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• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
• By Anthony Ryan Hatch
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• From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
  By Patrisia Macias-Rojas
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• Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
  By Forrest Stuart
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• Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
  By Robert Vargas

2015

• No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing   

  By Waverly Duck

• The Routledge of Poverty in the United States
  Edited by Stephen Haymes, Maria Vidal de Haymes, and Reuben Miller

• Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
  Edited by Devon Johnson, Patricia Warren, and Amy Farrell

2014

• Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live: Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins (Theoretical Criminology)
  By Kishonna Gray

• The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Completing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
  By Andrea M. Leverentz

• The Significance of Immigration for Youth and their Experiences with Violence and Juvenile Justice
  By Anthony Peguero and Jorge M. Chavez

• Human Struggling and Border Crossings
  By Gabriella Sanchez

• Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
  By Jason Whitesel

2013

• Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey
  By Robert J Durán

• Responding to School Violence:  Confronting the Columbine Effect
  By Glenn W. Muschert, Stuart Henry, Nicole L. Bracy, and Anthony A. Peguero

2012

• Juvenile Arrest in America: Race, Social Class, and Gang Membership
  By Michael Tapia

2011

• Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
  By Leslie Paik

• "Between Black and White": A Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
  Edited by María Vélez, Jody Miller, and Rod Brunson

• Could Quicker Executions Deter Homicides?:  The Relationship between Celerity, Capital Punishment, and Murder
  By Valerie L. Wright

2010

• Correctional Administration and Change Management
  By Martha Henderson Hurley and Dena Hanley

2009

• How Offenders Transform Their Lives
  Edited by Bonita Veysey, Johnna Christian, and Damian J. Martinez

2008

• Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
  By John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond

2007

• Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader
  Edited by Manning Marable, Keesha Middlemass, and Ian Steinberg

• How Drug Dealers Settle Disputes: Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes
  By Angela Taylor